Crossword for Fri, 29/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Poor man's right to make powerless (9)

4: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

6: On your feet! (8,5)

9: Fiction position (3)

10: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

11: Tender command (3)

12: Pass mould (3)

13: Curse the mother country? (9)

17: Testy chap distributed funds for incidentals (5,4)

18: Consumed and digested tea (3)

20: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

24: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

26: Lick up pal (3)

27: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

28: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

29: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)
Down
1: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

2: A humorous writer or two (5)

3: Sister leaves, seeing torment of supernatural servant (5)

4: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

5: This would make me a lord (7)

6: Influenced by sound material (5)

7: Doris has residence in old West African republic (7)

8: Small piece of fish (3)

13: Period email feature (3)

14: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

15: Equips for attacks (4)

16: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

18: Incandescent silver base (5)

19: Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7)

21: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

22: Stories least translated (5)

23: Dear benders (5)

25: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)




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